The Crossing
by Cormac McCarthy
Taste attributes: adventuredramahistoricalwesternunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearglossybig & variedemotive & stirringall consuming questhuman spirit/resilience/survivaltroubled leads
Boxlist takeExpect a dark, weighty adventure novel, emotive rather than low-key. Best if you like depth over escapism.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events.
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- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 432
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- Open Library
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